Showing titles in Westerns

In an effort to escape the pain of her past, Emma Jones answered an advertisement to become a mail order bride. When she became Adam’s wife, she never imagined that she would be widowed just a few months later. Alone and with a homestead to care for, she receives an offer from a neighboring cattle rancher that she finds hard to refuse. But her late husband’s best friend is determined not to let her give up that easily.

Wu-Pen Tseng is not getting the respect he craves. To use a bit of deception, he comes up with an operation he calls "Dragon's Fire". Dragon's Fire has three goals, and when all three are fulfilled, Wu-Pen is pleased. That is, until Matt Bannister begins an investigation and follows the evidence into Chinatown. Suspicion leads him to his prime suspect: Wu-Pen.

Forgive, and you’ll be forgiven. How can death, betrayal, a rash proposal, and revenge lead to romance? An abusive controller - ex-brother-in-law, new husband, uncle-stepfather - compels reluctant travelers - his brother’s widow and daughter - westward. To escape his abuse, Lilah proposes marriage to the wagon train scout, which only leaves Padraig thinking she's a bit soft in the head. It's 1855. Come join the journey along the Oregon Trail with Lilah. Wagon Ho!

Jennifer Mason loves medicine. She lives on the family farm with her beloved younger brother, feeds her thirst for medical knowledge through any books she can find, and spends her time learning from the doctor in town and the nearby Shawnee medicine man. Then tragedy strikes, and Jennifer’s life is changed forever. Unable to save her brother’s life after a horrifying accident, Jennifer wonders whether her search for knowledge was a waste. Unsure of herself and driven by loneliness and despair, she takes the first option she finds for a new start.

From horse showing in Georgia to riding the range in Texas - a tale of courage and finding faith. Carli Jameson is used to being on her own - abandoned by her mother as an infant - all she’s ever wanted is to feel like she belongs. She has had no choice except to be strong and independent, but now, can she learn to trust God to be her partner? Georgia girl, Carli Jameson, inherits a Texas cattle ranch from grandparents she never knew. After much thought, she makes the courageous decision to pack up her life and move to Texas to run the ranch.

Steel sharpens steel, but will its sparks ignite unfailing love? Instead of living a pampered life on the civilized East Coast with a new husband, rejection compels Christina Adams westward with her widowed brother and his two daughters. Harboring ulterior motives, Ethan Cord, the man her brother hires to accompany the family, is more a match for her. He appears almost perfect, but how could she possibly trust her instincts about him when she’d been so wrong about her previous fiancé? Will her past ruin her future?

Shiloh Wheaton has spent four years recovering from the greatest tragedy of her young life - the accident that claimed her parents and left her with a ghastly scar across her face. Now 22, it’s time to leave Boston and start over fresh somewhere else. But where? Widowed father - and the preacher of Shadow Gulch, Idaho - David Thompkins is seeking a mother for his five-year-old daughter. He writes to a matrimonial agency back east for a suitable bride.

Five desperate young women...Katie, Joanna, Eve, Evangeline, and Adelaide meet on a stagecoach on their way to Cheyenne, Wyoming as mail order brides. As they talk to each other, Katie and Adelaide become suspicious. Are they correct to be suspicious or are they overreacting? One man with an evil plan...Ross has been planning this for months and the stagecoach is finally on its way. After this, he’ll have succeeded in his most devious plot yet and be on the top of his game. Maybe he’ll even be able to come out of the shadows, despite his brother being a detective.

Murder at Mountain Creek is a three-book series about nonidentical twin brothers who set out during the Great Depression of the 1930s to get away from home. Frank Connell is a fast talker who would rather agree than fight or just plain run. Carl Connell is the taller and leaner of the two, the physical one. He is also good with a gun.

When a marauding band of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers attack a wagon train and take two women and a boy captive, Talon Thompsett is surprised when no one is willing to go after the Indians and try to rescue the captives. But the young man is reminded of his father’s counsel that “Whenever a task falls to you, don’t question the why of it, just get busy with the doin’ of it”. Now he must set aside his new job as Shotgun for the Overland Stage and gear up for the pursuit of a band of warrior renegades.

It is Ruth Brookings’ first year teaching school. She wants to instill a love of learning into them, but between the unruly children and persistence of an unwanted suitor, she is overwhelmed. To make matters worse, when Ruth prays for guidance, she’s answered with a challenge instead: to encourage her friend, Sheriff Micah Carson, to find a wife - whether he wants one or not. When she does, he starts to avoid her, and the shy teacher wonders if she just lost one of her only friends.

What happens when minor characters ask for their own stories? A collection of three novellas as the author gives in to their demands. Cole Baxter was introduced in the novel Amazing Grace, but insisted he get his own story. After his sister and her husband die and leave him with her four children, he needs a wife - and fast. Timothy and Abigail both have the daunting task of caring for their younger sister. Can they help each other raise their sisters or does God have more in mind for them? Alexander Granger is tired of his father’s lectures and sermons.

Tinsmith Jonah has always longed for a wife and family, but his hopes died in war. He knows no woman wants a crippled man. He has taken in two young orphans and is raising them on his own. Anne has lived a hard life since her parents died, being taken in by her aunt and uncle who treat her like an unpaid servant. When she sees the ad from Jonah, she sees light in her life again and is happy to accept his proposal. But the children want nothing to do with Anne.

Eileen is a pastor's wife who has just found out that her husband has been slept with another woman. She thought she had the perfect marriage to the perfect man...she thought it would last forever, and she found the happy ever after.... Until she found out about the other woman. Now her husband is begging for forgiveness. Can she ever trust him again?

Gloria emerged from the kitchen with two bowls of vegetables and placed them next to large serving spoons. Next, she brought out a large cutting board with a glistening ribeye roast, its juices dripping into a groove around the edges of the board. She put the board and roast in front of Kenny along with two carving knives. After she brought out a bowl of thick chestnut-colored gravy, Gloria sat down next to Lance. Gloria emerged from the kitchen with bowls.

Virginia Lawson has always considered herself a strong, down to earth person. She wasn't shaken easily, and took pride in her ability to stay calm in difficult circumstances. She kept herself together when her father died at age 16. She stayed practical when she lost her inheritance in the Civil War. And when she had to travel hundreds of miles to where she was now, Virginia didn't even break a sweat.

In 1865, Doctor Cal Watkins and his six daughters packed up all of their worldly goods to embark on the Oregon Trail's treacherous journey. Moving from Howard County, Missouri, to Whitevale River in Idaho for a job as the town's doctor, Cal hopes he and his family will have the chance to heal from the tragedy and sins of the past. But as the weeks, months, and years unfold, the Watkins family discovers that building a new life in the West brings a perilous and foreboding future. One in which Cal and each of his daughters are forced to face their own demons.

Mary Rose Martin is desperate. With seven younger sisters all happily married, her wealthy Virginia family is starting to give up on her, and she faces the dismal fate of being an old maid. Her only choice is to marry Thorton Ellis, 30 years her senior - and completely odious. Mary Rose can’t face the prospect of spending her life with him. Instead, she flees, and gets on the first train West.

When her mother dies, 19-year-old Dana finds herself alone with her stepfather, a man who despises her. Desperate to find a better life for herself, she corresponds with widower, Caleb, who seeks only a mother for his son. A son who hasn't spoken a word since his mother's death. Dana lost her hearing at a young age and vows to help his son find his voice again. She falls in love with the boy, happy to be a wife to Caleb in name only. But when her feelings for Caleb begin to grow, she tries desperately to stop them. Can Caleb open his heart to Dana before he loses her?

What happens to a man when he counts his own worth as loss? What happens to a woman when unseen wounds destroy her ability to speak? They invest in one another. From that moment on, both Jake and Suzannah’s inner pain heals bit by bit. By gentle degrees, their true natures entwine. They even dare to dream of a future together - until Jake’s past twists back into their lives and threatens to steal him away.